New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-05-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, May 9th, 1887.

The handsome bronze statue Of Gar
field, which stands at the foot of Capt.
tol Hill, all draped in black at present,
ready to be unveiled amid imposing
ceremony on the 18th inst, makes the
nineteenth outdoor memorial to public
men in this city. There are six eques-
trian statues, six pedestrian statues,
marble groups and bronze groups and
one marble shaft, the tallest in the
world.
The father of his country has been
memorialized in both marble and bronze
so also has the great War PRESIDENT,
Abraham Lincoln, while there are
Jackson, Scott, Green, Mcpherson,
Thomas, Rawlins, Farragut, Dupont,
Luther, Prof. Henry, and Chief Justice
Marshall, who have been given either
marble or metallic Immortality in the
National Capitol.
This last addition, erected by his old
comrades in arms, (the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland cost 500, 900,
thirty thousand of which Congress ap-
propriated for the pedestal. It repre-.
sents Gen. Garfield standing in a grace
full attitude, holding 4 manuscript in
one hand while the other rests on q
book lying upon a column. The figure
is OF heroic size and decidedly lifclike
and striking.
The movement for the erection of a
monument to the memory of Gen. Gar
field mad it's inception on the day OF his
DEATH The Society of the Army Of the
Cumberland, of which he was a con-
spicuous member, had met in annual
reunion at Chattanooga, Tennessee. 1t
was meeting of special interest, for
the ex-Confederates Of that region, in
which the Army OF the Cumberland
fought its battles and won it's fame,
had united in an invitation to the soci-
ETY. to hold it's meeting III their midst.
They wanted to meet the men they had
fought on so many battles fields, in So
eial intercourse Gen. Garfield hearth
ly approved of this reunion OF soldiers
OF both sides and had promised to be
present. Then he was stricken down
by the assassin's bullet, and the society,
on the day of it's assembling, received
the news Of his death.
The 30th of April just passed was
such Il glorious day for the Inaugural
ton of President that one could not
but regret the failure Of a certain bill
before the last Congress. 1t was intro
duced by Senator ingalls, and provided
that Inauguration day be changed from
the 4th of March to the last Tuesday in
April. The reason for the change was
that the weather in early March is usu-
ally execrable, and that the effect of the
Inauguration ceremonies is apt to be
spoiled in consequence.
l could not help contrasting the snow
and slush, wet and chill Of the last
fourth of March with the April day,
which it. was proposed should witness
the next Inauguration. The lawns
were fresh mown, the trees half leaved,
the parks bright with hyacinths and tu-
lips, the streets as clean as bowling al
leys, the thermometer IS, the sky blue
and the west wind mild and fresh.
Imagine what the scene would be on
such day with $4,000 troops in close
column marching up Pennsylvania av.
enue, and 100000 thousand people
watching the pageant and despite the
failure of the bill for the present, the
last of April will doubtless be the in
auguration time of the future. The
Senator from Kansas received the full
lest appreciation of his bill from thu
committees of both Houses of Congress!
to which it was referred, and seemed
almost certain of passage, but failed a
the last moment. Mr.. Ingalls, says h
will not give itup, but intends introduc
ing the bill early in the Fiftieth Con
gress, and pressing it to a successful
conclusion.
The wise policy of the Republics
party made the credit of the Unite,
States better than that of any other IA
ton in the world. Under laws passe
and administered by the Republicans
the taxes, also, were levied and collec
ed SO as to produce overfowing revenu
without serious burdens upon the pee
pie.
At the Treasury Department. the
are making 8 vigorous effore. to sho'
that there will be no dangerous acc,
mutation of money in the T,easul
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